I found this real fascinating.
Millionaire receives 11-year sentence in case of enslaved maids
Now, lets pause real quick and take a look at the following. At first it may sound completely unrelated, but bare with me…
Crack cocaine is the only drug for which the first offense of simple possession can trigger a federal mandatory minimum sentence. Possession of 5 grams of crack will trigger a 5 year mandatory minimum sentence. “Simple possession of any quantity of any other substance by a first-time offender-including powder cocaine-is a misdemeanor offense punishable by a maximum of one year in prison.” (21 U.S.C. 844.)
Oh no you start to say, I skipped out on math and have no clue what 5 grams looks like. Well, it’s a little bit smaller than the size of a 25 cent quarter.
In federal court today, low-level crack dealers and first-time offenders sentenced for trafficking of crack cocaine receive an average sentence of 10 years and six months. This is:
–only 18% less than the average prison sentence received by those who committed murder or manslaughter (153 months);
–59% longer than the average prison sentence received by rapists (79 months);
–38% longer than the average prison sentence received by those guilty of weapons offenses (91 months).
Am I losing you yet? Completely and utterly confused? Well my point is this, for a individual to have 5 grams of crack on them, they would receive 5 years. BUT these millionaires who were just convicted of the following: forced labor, conspiracy, involuntary servitude and harboring aliens and the victims of their abuse report that “they were beaten with brooms and umbrellas, slashed with knives, and forced to climb stairs and take freezing showers as punishment” get 11 years?
I don’t know about you, but I would think whoever sick enough to treat their maids as modern day slaves, and to treat them less than human should deserve [much] longer in prison. I wonder if it has to do with money. Or being able to pay the huge fines, bails, lawyer fees, etcetera and just plain old gettin’ off easy. Naaah, that could’nt be true. I mean it’s not like this happens all the time, with rich people doin some shit only to receive a slap on the wrist.
